A student named Kip Mock of New Saint Andrews College wrote today’s letter to the editor, in response to this front-page story:
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You call them ‘rapist sheep’
I moved to Moscow a little over a year ago, and I’ve attended Christ Church and completed my freshman year at New Saint Andrews College.
I have watched article after article come out targeting those affiliated with Christianity. Headlines that specify a Christ Church elder made an investment, and side notes that make it clear that it was two Christ Church members attempting to start an auto shop downtown raise a serious question: Just because I’m a Christian, am I not allowed to make an investment? Am I not allowed to open a business? And if I do, why does that mean it will be a sanctuary for rapists?
I’m not sure where all of you stand religiously, but next time you call an entire group of people rapists based on one horrifying event, ask yourself how you would like to be classified in the same way because of someone else’s disgraceful choices. Where does this classification become discrimination, and why is Christianity the only group that discrimination is allowed against?
You shout your tolerance to the world and in the same breath you are intolerant of those who disagree with you. You call an entire group hateful and in the same breath you call them “rapist sheep.” How is that not a hateful statement? And again I ask, why is Christianity the only group that is a safe target for this kind of slander? Would you say this about your Muslim neighbor? Your atheist co-worker? Where lies the difference?
I will happily accept responses and explanations of this phenomenon to my phone: (360) 927-6146. Feel free to text me, or leave a message if I don’t pick up. Talk to you soon.
Kip Mock
Moscow
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Please note that the term “rapist sheep” never appears in the Daily News article. Moreover, the words “sex offender,” “convicted felon,” or “child molester” don’t appear there either. To be sure, essentially none of the things that Mr. Mock alleges actually exist in the Daily News article. If I had to guess, it appears that Mr. Mock suffers from an acute case of cognitive dissonance and that he cannot balance reality with the Kirk “party line” — so he snapped.
Parents: Don’t send your children to New St. Andrews College. They won’t learn much and they may end up marrying a serial pedophile.
She should take a look at what Pastor Wilson and his theology lumps entire people groups to perdition. Pastor Wilson considers Evolution to be a lie, and the Universe/Earth is only six thousand years old. Of course, they have a right to be engaged in any legal business/religious/personal endeavor they wish. But they are the group that makes absolute claims and the entire world is culled into what ever pigeon-hole their theology puts us. Basically, there is this giant conspiracy against their view of the world lead by I guess the Devil.
Those affiliated with Doug Wilson, Inc. always confuse criticism of “Pastor” Wilson and his adherents as attacks on “Christianity”. Nope, not true. The criticisms and distrust of Doug Wilson, Inc. are strictly reserved for the perversion of Christianity that emanates from, and permeates, Doug Wilson, Inc.